Report: ISIS Using Snowden Documents to Evade U.S. Intel Efforts

Free Beacon ^ | July 21, 2015 | Lachlan Markey

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The self-proclaimed Islamic State has used National Security Agency documents stolen by former contractor Edward Snowden to evade U.S. intelligence services, officials told the New York Times in a Tuesday story.

The Times reported that fact deep in a story on the group’s efforts to evade and recover from American and Iraqi military strikes.

Documents stolen and leaked to reporters by Snowden, who remains in hiding in Russia, have led to changes in IS operations that have prevented U.S. forces from gathering intelligence on the group, the Times reported.

The Islamic State has also studied revelations from Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, about how the United States gathers information on militants. A main result is that the group’s top leaders now use couriers or encrypted channels that Western analysts cannot crack to communicate, intelligence and military officials said.

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[AdmSmith]

Moscow would sacrifice Snowden to protect their actual moles

http://20committee.com/2015/07/19/the-painful-truth-about-snowden/

[SunkenCiv]

My best guess is, Snowden was recruited and groomed while still in high school.

[AdmSmith]

Any idea about his FR name?

[JoeFromSidney]

I presume this is a program or an app, but I don't recognize the language nor do I have a compiler.

[cynwoody]

/dev/random is an example of a facility to provide true randomness (entropy) extracted from a system's environment. E.g., whenever a keyboard or mouse event or network packet arrives, grab the least significant bit of the timestamp counter and add it to the entry pool. In extreme cases, hardware may be used to, for example, digitize thermal noise. Bits from the entropy pool are then used to seed cryptographic PRNGs to provide such things as TLS session keys.